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In yesterdays post I spoke about how I had been to the city to visit the Melbourne Town Hall. You may remember some previous images I have shown you of the outside of the building just before Christmas. It was the building that had the amazing light show on it. I never realised that you could take a tour of the inside of the building. So Klara and I went on one. It was really amazing. Such a beautiful building and obviously built during a time of great wealth in Melbourne, the gold rush era.

Before we talk about the tour and the images, I need to explain, that the images aren’t great. It is quite dark inside the rooms we visited. I had to up the ISO as high as it would go, and that is probably one of the worse things about the D300s, the high ISOs give a lot of noise. I couldn’t use a tripod, so I had to do what I could holding the camera, even with the highest ISO, I still had to have a wide aperture. I am hoping that I will get to go back again and do some photos with a tripod. I tried to get rid of as much noise as I could, but it is still there. I was going to use Topaz DeNoise, but I see my trial has run out. Might have to check out the one from Nik Software.

The image up there, as all the images today are, were taken in the Council Chambers Room. A very opulent room where the council members of the City of Melbourne meet. Three very important people sit in the three chairs above, the middle one being for the Lord Mayor of Melbourne.

The rest sit in these seats. It isn’t a large room, but then it is just for the local council.

The room is so beautiful. The attention to detail was astounding. It really is worth the tour just to see this room. A room like this would never be built today. The intricate carvings would cost so much money, and all the marble. There are so many things to photograph in this room. I really do think this is the room I would want to go back and photograph.

This is taken from the back and looking to the Mayors chair. You can see the trouble I had taking the photos. HDR images would be a must here. These are HDR images, but only with 3 images. If I am allowed to go back, I hope to do more.

Here is my daughter Klara sitting in the Mayor’s Chair. She didn’t take much convincing. You can see some of the detail there that is on the chair.

I had a wonderful time on the tour. It is a beautiful building and with a rich history. Our tour guide was lovely and very knowledgeable. Of course, there is a lot more to the building than what I have shown you here. This is just from one room. You also get to see the main hall, and if nothing is on you can go to the back and see all the organ pipes and see how the organ works. We were shown the Melbourne Room where the Queen came for afternoon tea in 1954, and where the Beatles hung out when they came to Australia. We went out onto the balcony and watched Swanston Street below.

One of the things that surprised me was how surprised they were that Klara and I wanted to do the tour. Apparently they don’t get many people who live in Melbourne wanting to do it. We both thought it was great.

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Virtual Photography Field Trip

I have to get back to writing the Virtual Field Trip for my new client. We have had various discussions about where to go and finally settled on a place in California. I am as excited as she is about where she is going. I convinced her to try photographing a subject she wasn’t sure about, I thought it was a great opportunity for her to learn how to do something new with me to help her. I have written most of it, time to go and do some more.

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